Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1879 — Expense of Railroad Cars. [ARTICLE]

Expense of Railroad Cars.

The following figures are given regarding the cost of car-building by one the leading firms engaged in the branch of manufacture: ' The average price of box cars is from S4OO to $450, while in 1872 they were as high as $1,200. A milk car costs about SIOO more. A baggage truck and a passenger car truck are of about the same expense. The price of a baggage car varies from $2,000 to $2,500. The cheapest style of Wagner’s drawing-room care may be made for $8,000; the usual price being $12,000. This includes all the furnishing. The cheaper' drawing-room care, four wheels, are made for SIO,OOO, while ordinary mail care cost from $2,000 to $3,000; distributing care are more expensive. Cars for the New York Elevated Road cost from $2,500 to $3,000. The ordinary passenger care cost $4,200: the last built for the Hudson KiVer Road cost $5,400, which included a heater and some extra fixtures. Small cars for carrying ore cost S2OO.